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###### Federal Reserve System

                    The companies listed in this notice have applied to the Board for approval, pursuant to the Bank Holding Company Act of 1956 (12 U.S.C. 1841*et seq.*) (BHC Act), Regulation Y (12 CFR part 225), and all other applicable statutes and regulations to become a bank holding company and/or to acquire the assets or the ownership of, control of, or the power to vote shares of a bank or bank holding company and all of the banks and nonbanking companies owned by the bank holding company, including the companies listed below.                

                    The public portions of the applications listed below, as well as other related filings required by the Board, if any, are available for immediate inspection at the Federal Reserve Bank(s) indicated below and at the offices of the Board of Governors.                           ( print page 37158)                        This information may also be obtained on an expedited basis, upon request, by contacting the appropriate Federal Reserve Bank and from the Board's Freedom of Information Office at                     *https://www.federalreserve.gov/​foia/​request.htm.*                     Interested persons may express their views in writing on the standards enumerated in the BHC Act (12 U.S.C. 1842(c)).                

Comments regarding each of these applications must be received at the Reserve Bank indicated or the offices of the Board of Governors, Ann E. Misback, Secretary of the Board, 20th Street and Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20551-0001, not later than August 13, 2021.

*A. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston*                     (Prabal Chakrabarti, Senior Vice President) 600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02210-2204. Comments can also be sent electronically to                     *BOS.SRC.Applications.Comments@bos.frb.org:*

                    1.                     *Independent Bank Corp., (“Independent”) through its subsidiary, Bradford Merger Sub Inc., both of Rockland, Massachusetts;*                     to merge with Meridian Bancorp, Inc., Peabody, Massachusetts (“Meridian”), with Meridian as the survivor, and thereby indirectly acquire East Boston Savings Bank, Boston, Massachusetts. Immediately after, Meridian to merge with Independent, with Independent as the survivor, and East Boston Savings Bank to merge with and into Rockland Trust, Rockland, Massachusetts, a wholly owned subsidiary bank of Independent, with Rockland Trust as the surviving bank.                

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, July 9, 2021.

Michele Taylor Fennell,

Deputy Associate Secretary of the Board.

[FR Doc. 2021-14997 Filed 7-13-21; 8:45 am]

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